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Frank The Bunny Über Fan


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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| contact customer care. I don't know what policies other carriers have, but it's my company's policy to go half-way with you on accidental overages. |
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Mr. Brian Site Admin


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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| withahip wrote: | | A stockade at the local mall? Rotting vegetables to throw at the culprit? |
It sounds like Woj may need to eat those vegetables and no one goes to malls anymore.
Maybe a stockade in a Game Stop? _________________ VilliersTerrace.com...It seems rather like a pub that you'd find Ian McCulloch in, lots of loud voices, cheer, and some ramblings funny enough to rival Comedy Central. The real people, fans - meet up on the Terrace. - mccranksjuke.blogspot.com |
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In The Margins Über Fan


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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:12 am Post subject: |
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Humiliate or embarrass him in front of his friends. Helps to create fond memories. _________________ “Nothing kills the mood like a good Jesus song.” |
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fat cherry Über Fan

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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| withahip wrote: | | A stockade at the local mall? Rotting vegetables to throw at the culprit? |
generally when his mates find out he hasn't got a phone that will be shame enough and precipitate howls of laughter from all concerned. if they find out it been taken off him by his dad, a cycle of despair will ensue. That, or replace the phone with a tescos own version, or say, "you can use mine" - because its probably going to be a brick from the 1990s. And then when he says he cant hang out with the gang because he's got to be in before it gets dark. well you'll never be forgiven - I mean for such a minor misdemeanor and just because you haven't got any friends etc.
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JackT Über Fan


Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 3433 Location: Howard Co., MD
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:03 am Post subject: |
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Until about 18 months ago I was using a pay-as-you-go phone that amounted to about $6 a month. (It only works out that way for light useage though.) _________________ Chuck Norris took my virginity, and he will sure as hell take yours. If you're thinking to yourself, "That's impossible, I already lost my virginity," then you are dead wrong. |
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Voodoo Billy Senior Member

Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 871 Location: Out on a limb
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:06 am Post subject: |
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| withahip wrote: | Don't you have poor houses in England you can send him to?
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They've since been rebranded and are now called Travelodges. _________________ “I'm the same age that my father was when I first thought he was old” |
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withahip Über Fan

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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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| fat cherry wrote: | | generally when his mates find out he hasn't got a phone that will be shame enough and precipitate howls of laughter from all concerned. if they find out it been taken off him by his dad, a cycle of despair will ensue. |
For the win! |
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Voodoo Billy Senior Member

Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 871 Location: Out on a limb
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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You could always buy him a pink phone. That way he'd only use it in a real emergency. _________________ “I'm the same age that my father was when I first thought he was old”
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the ghost of guitarplayer Über Fan


Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 1045 Location: Sitting in my leather upholstered armchair being a git and a gobshite.
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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That's a good idea. That brings back memories... I worked in a mobile phone shop in the early 1990s and the temporary replacement phone that we'd give customers while their normal brick phone was being fixed was available in black, pink, red or yellow. We used to give the pink model to customers we didn't like the look of or had been rude when they had come to collect it. Just like this, but in pink:
That would be ideal to punish any wayward son for running up a phone bill. No Internet or texting on it either. The only alternative nowadays I guess is one of those phones for the elderly with the large keypad. Tonywojo, you could give him a kid's phone. Some are restricted to just four telephone numbers. Try the LG Migo or i-care phone for the total embarrassment factor. One of those would work a treat because he would no longer have any friends left for him to call after being ostracised at school (cue Donald Sutherland invasion of the bodysnatchers pic pointing). _________________ J'ai entendu vos points de vue. Ils ne rencontrent pas les miens. La décision est prise à l'unanimité.
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Voodoo Billy Senior Member

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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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Watch he doesn't hit you with it though Wojo, that one looks like it could do some damage. _________________ “I'm the same age that my father was when I first thought he was old” |
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tonywojo Über Fan

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| Voodoo Billy wrote: | | Watch he doesn't hit you with it though Wojo, that one looks like it could do some damage. |
I will make him read this.
Hes paying out of his savings
Thanks, friends. Too funny. _________________ i sometimes use caps and punctuation for emphasis |
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crystal daze Senior Member


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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| the ghost of guitarplayer wrote: | | (cue Donald Sutherland invasion of the bodysnatchers pic pointing). |
or Peter Lorre
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DivaDiana77 Über Fan


Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 1150 Location: the land of cheeky chick pop
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Are there any escape clauses for minors not having the capacity to understand what they are doing? I mean, in the US minor children do not have the capacity to form contracts and so they are void.
If he is about old enough, make him buy his own damn phone service. Getting a job like the rest of us who wanted to buy things our parents said no to purchasing builds character. I recommend McDonalds where they told me they were going to make me cook fries all day to ruin my perfect skin and clean the tile grout with my toothbrush. _________________ "it gives me thrills to wind you up." Kate Nash, Foundations.
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black francis looser

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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:54 am Post subject: |
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If they still made these I would use one. I've always wanted one.
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JackT Über Fan


Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 3433 Location: Howard Co., MD
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:48 am Post subject: |
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You can probably get a hold of a used Dynatac. _________________ Chuck Norris took my virginity, and he will sure as hell take yours. If you're thinking to yourself, "That's impossible, I already lost my virginity," then you are dead wrong. |
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